People Operations Manager

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Apply locations Reading area time type Full time posted on Posted 25 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: January 6, 2025 (4 hours left to apply) job requisition id R26408

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People Operations Manager

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Competitive salary depending on experience, and standard AWE benefits

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

The People Operations Manager oversees the People Functions governance and manages the People Plan on behalf of the People Director. This role is pivotal in ensuring the smooth operation of the People function within People & Places, holding the integrated delivery plan, ensuring delivery against agreed business milestones and providing critical reporting to the People Director.

This role will also ensure interconnectivity of People plan and reporting within the People & Places governance and reporting requirement, working closely with the TA to Chief People & Places Officer.

Some of the Key Responsibilities

• Governance: develop, implement, and maintain a robust governance framework for the people function on behalf of the People Director and put controls in place to ensure effective adherence to the framework.
• Programme Management: define and maintain the People strategy programme, track and report on progress, key performance indicators (KPIs), financial metrics and identify and mitigate risks, and proactively address issues.
• Stakeholder management: build strong relationships with key stakeholders within People & Places function, across the enterprise, and where appropriate with external parties. Ensure effective communication of complex information to a diverse audience, tailoring messages to their specific needs and proactively address concerns driving resolution and deconfliction in an engaging and influential way.
• Reporting: working in collaboration with the People Insights team, TA to Chief People & Places Officer (CPPO) and Finance and enterprise Portfolio Management stakeholders, produce timely and high-quality reports to meet People Director and CPPO requirements, intended for a range of audiences including board level.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• An understanding of employment laws and HR regulations and best practices.
• Degree in relevant field or the equivalent in experience.
• Proven experience in people operations, programme management, governance, and executive reporting (or equivalent in complexity and audience expectations). Evidence of effective influence and positive engagement of others to drive delivery.
• Evidence of putting effective financial and/or resource management controls in place.
• Highly effective project management, planning and organising skills, using a methodical and analytical approach and a robust approach towards time and resource management.
• Able to integrate multiple workstreams of information in a simple way which is understood by a range of stakeholders.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the correct security clearance for this role.

If you're looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK's continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before. Find out more on our website.